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  Women Leader of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Jumoke Okoya-Thomas has made a case for the eradication of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Lagos State in particular and in Nigeria generally. Speaking on this year's Lagos Gender-Based Violence (GBV) week and the 16 Days of Activism to end violence against women and girls, Okoya-Thomas said that the matter has assumed an alarming rate and that it should be curtailed to prevent further damage to the victims of the violence. The Women Leader, who spoke to journalists on Wednesday, appealed to all stakeholders to rally round the government and other concerned agencies as well as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) to end domestic violence and sexual harassment against women and girls. While commending the Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu-led government and the state's First Lady, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu for their efforts in this regard, Okoya-Thomas said that she would continue to play a positi...

  Chairman of the Ogun State House of Assembly Service Commission, Hon. Waliu Taiwo has promised to ensure a  good working relationship between the legislature and the executive in the state. Addressing newsmen shortly after the inauguration of the members of the newly constituted Ogun State House of Assembly Service Commission in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Taiwo said that time had come for the two arms of government to work together. The former two-term commissioner in the state added that time had come for the state to claim its rightful place among the comity of states in the country. "My plan is to create a good working relationship between the executive and the legislature and ensure good welfare packages for all the members and staff of the state house of Assembly. "As a former member of the state house of Assembly and a former commissioner in the state, I know what to do to ensure synergy between the two arms of government. "What we need to do is to serve as a reliable ...

 On Friday, November 6, Citation, the seventh movie of filmmaker par excellence, Kunle Afolayan, will be released on video streaming platform, Netflix, to a global audience. The coming of age movie, written by Tunde Babalola, is a university drama centred on a female postgraduate student who has to find a way of dealing with the incidence of sexual harassment from a popular male lecturer. It was shot in Nigeria, Senegal and Cape Verde and features tested thespians like Haitian-born Hollywood actor, Jimmy Jean Louis, Sadiq Daba and Gabriel Afolayan with a cameo by Dr Mrs Ibukun Awosika, the chairman of First Bank of Nigeria. Last Saturday, Citation was premiered to a select audience at the Terra Kulture, Victoria Island. The event had in attendance the cast of Citation; Dr. Mrs Ibukun Awosika, Temi Otedola, Ini Edo, Gabriel Afolayan, Seun Kuti, Toyin Ogundeji alongside the partners behind the movie; Ford Foundation, Access “W’ Initiative, Natnudos, Canon, Flyboku, GAC Motors, Arik A...

The Council of Patriotic Yoruba Youth has had the opportunity to conduct an initial assessment in the aftermath of Tuesday October 20, 2020 event at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos in which pandemonium broke out as #EndSARS protesters that had camped out there in defiance of a curfew announced by the state government were fired upon by hoodlums suspected to have been rented by IPOB.    On the following day, there was widespread arson across the state with the destruction of the Nigeria Ports Authority building, Oriental Hotel, Television Continental (TVC) studios, the Nation Newspapers head office, the Palace of the Oba of Lagos, the family homes of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwoolu, BRT depot in Oyingbo with scores of buses, other BRT locations and buses, looting of ShopRite outlets, burning of police station and vehicles,  burning of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) vehicles, and destruction of several other homes.   Because the nearby CCTVs were earlier disabled...

The Coalition of Human Rights Monitoring Groups (CHRMG) has assured Nigerians of maximum safety throughout the Nigerian Army's operation 'Crocodile Smile' which it says is targeted at criminals.    CHRMG's coordinator, Abubakar Gana, gave this assurance on Monday at a press conference in Abuja ahead of the start of the exercise.    Gana said the annual operation has no connection with the ongoing #EndSARS protests in the country, contrary to the misconception by "some distractors and tattlers of fake news".    In his words, the 'Crocodile Smile' is "targeted at the identification of fleeing Boko Haram terrorists from the hot theatre of war in Northeast, but are sneaking into other parts of Nigeria to cause atrocities".    He added that the " exercise has also progressed into the first-ever cyber warfare exercises packaged to identify, track, and counter negative propaganda in social media and in the cyberspace, which is a potent weapon o...

The Civil Situation Room has called for an immediate suspension of the #EndSARS protests across the country over human rights abuses.    The situation room, consisting of over 100 human rights groups said the protests have taken a violent twist in recent days, infringing on the rights of other citizens and entrenching criminal activities.   Protests demanding an end to Police brutality entered its 12th day on Monday despite the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and subsequent formation of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT).    In the last couple of days, the exercise has become fierce, particularly in the Federal Capital Territory, Lagos and Benin.    Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday in Abuja, coordinator of the Situation Room on #EndSARS Comrade Adamu Kabir Matazu said protesters are now involved in abuses, depriving people of their lives.    He, however, urged leaders of thought all over the world to prevail on t...

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has expelled its Senate President, Abubakar Gambo Mohammed.   It was gathered that Mohammed was expelled on Tuesday during an emergency joint Senators (SUG President) and Stakeholders congress for offences ranging from public extortion, anti-organizational activities, illegal conveying of NANS senate meeting on zoom platform, sabotage and gross indiscipline.   He was also accused of tampering and manipulation of the NANS Constitution and Charter of Demand without recourse to constitutional provisions, a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting read.   “Despite the information being in public domain, the desperate merchants, so called former leaders represented at the illegal zoom senate meeting by Ogolo Victory, a former Vice President of NANS in 2005 and Haruna Kadiri, former NANS Zone B coordinator 2006/2007 and factional President in 2017, disgracefully, against the practice, constitution and tradition of NANS, pr...